Changing File Attributes with the ATTRIB Command

By Dan DiNicolo, April 17th, 2007 Posted in Windows Commands. Subscribe to our RSS Feed

Although the XP GUI allows you to change attributes from the properties of a file or folder, the command line ATTRIB tool is a much faster and more flexible alternative. One benefit of this tool is that it allows you to configure the System attributes for a file, which isn’t possible via the graphical interface. This is useful because when a file or folder has both its Hidden and System attributes set, the file is completely hidden in the Windows Explorer interface by default.

To view the attributes associated with a file or folder from the command line, type ATTRIB followed by the file name. To add attributes to a file, use the ATTRIB command followed by +R +H +A or +S (and then the path/filename) to add the Read-only, Hidden, Archive, and System attributes to the file respectively. The –R –H –A and –S switches remove these attributes from the file.

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